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Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - Automatic Attendance
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Let Blackboard collaborate take attendance and enter in your grade center for you.
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - Automatic Attendance
Let Blackboard collaborate take attendance for you.
This setting can now track and report student attendance in a live collaborate sessions, if this option is selected students are automatically marked present, late or absent.
This option also allows session reports that will allow you to review the time a student was in your session and number of times the may have re-entered.
In your Blackboard course, go to Tools and click Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and select “Create Session” and give it a name and check any settings you need.
Start and end dates and time ** (NOTE: Do not choose No end date for Attendance).
2. Attendance is the last icon, let Bb Collaborate automatically take attendance and record it in the grade center for you!
The most important setting is “Share attendance information with LMS
*A tip about the setting, Required time in a session, I set mine for 75% to allow for students who may enter in and out due to connection issues (remember in the session reports you can verify how many times a student did re-enter your class.
When finished hit “Create”
NOTE: If you do not see your session, click the session range drop down arrow.
NOTE: Where to find Bb collaborate attendance; in your Course Management, Control Panel, Attendance and in your grade center.